Monumental Propaganda
8 best books like Monumental Propaganda (Vladimir Voinovich): The Castle of Otranto, Doctor Zhivago, The Hellbound Heart, The Purloined Letter, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, Some Words With a Mummy, The Stairway to Heaven, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
| Author | Boris Pasternak |
| ISBN | 0679774386 |
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
| Author | Clive Barker |
| ISBN | 0061002828 |
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0886820618 |
Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur, D..., sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler...
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...
The narrator is invited to take part in the unwrapping and autopsy of a mummy. The scientists find the body in a surprisingly good condition. As the title suggests, the mummy is very much alive, due to his special genes and the unusual way he was embalmed.
But it is not a horror story! Actually,...
| Author | Zecharia Sitchin |
| ISBN | 0380633396 |
Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today?
After...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594561788 |
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
